Guild Wars 2

Some people have to work, and go to school, and other things, and when you have a chapter styled event such as this, where you only have the last half of the week to do a certain part, some people won’t be able to knock this stuff out during the week, let alone that you weren’t able to do certain things on the weekend because it wasn’t released yet.

Couple this with the ridiculous drop rates on the exotics (and any every other worthwhile item). you have an overall unsatisfying event.

Other games such as Rift and WoW usually give at least two weeks for their seasonal events, which is plenty of time and all of it is available to the players on day 1. There’s also the fact that these games use token systems for their events, which means that players have a real outlook on the items that they will be able to get based on the time they put in, where in gw2, you can run mad king over 100 times and not get the exotics you want.

That’s absolutely ridiculous, and its clearly just NCSoft instilling a simple scarcity strategy in order to shove their gem economy down our throats. Knowing this is how they’re going to handle their seasonal events, it seems unappealing to put so much time into them.

Halloween itself lasted only 1 day. Your point being?